There were 252 transactions totaling $493 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.
🏆 Residential: The top home sale to hit records was in the Upper East Side. Christian Candy, a British developer, parted with a 15,000-square-foot, renovated townhouse at 8 East 62nd Street for $55 million or about $3,700 per square foot. The buyer, represented by Accent Holdings’ Michael Balanevsky, was anonymous. Adam Modlin of the Modlin Group had the listing. Candy and his wife, Emily Crompton-Candy, purchased the home in 2022 for $48 million.
🏆 Commercial: The top commercial deal to be recorded was in the Upper West Side, where three neighboring mixed-use walk ups at 202, 204 and 206 West 96th Street, traded for $22.5 million. The seller of the buildings, each one standing five stories tall, was Henson’s 96th Corp., which had owned the properties since the early 1990s. The buyer in the latest transaction were companies tied to Isaac Abraham and David Hematian. Combined, the properties house 53 apartments.
📊 Residential: Theresa Sackler, widow of the co-owner of Purdue Pharma, which has been held responsible for the opioid epidemic, shed a co-op at 980 Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side for $14.8 million. The buyer was Darbus NY LLC. The unit, a duplex, has four bedrooms, a staff room, a spiral staircase and six and a half bathrooms. The unit had not sold for decades. It went on the market in September, with an asking price of $16.2 million. Brown Harris Stevens’ Kathy Sloane and Sami Hassoumi had the listing.
📊 Residential: In Brooklyn Heights, a townhouse at 170 Clinton Street traded for $14 million. The seller was an LLC tied to development firm Eckstrom, which paid $4.8 million for the property in 2023, and the buyer was Moose & Ax LLC. The gut-renovated property has seven bedrooms, a home office, gym, sauna and rec space, along with an elevator and oversized backyard. It first hit the market in 2024 for just under $14 million. Carlos Saavedra, founder of Eckstrom and of Park Property Advisors, and Jorge Murillo, also with Park Property Advisors, had the listing.
📊 Commercial: Also in Brooklyn Heights, an apartment building at 35 Orange Street sold for $15.9 million. The six-story building measures more than 47,000 square feet, with 48 apartments. The seller was MM & I Realty Co., which had acquired the building in 1998. Its newest owner is an affiliate of Anpora Property Services.
By the Numbers: Where is ICE buying up industrial real estate?
The Department of Homeland Security has been buying up warehouses and industrial properties around the country as it works to increase the capacity of its detention centers.
The department’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division intends to add about 20,000 beds to its detention centers, bringing the total to 92,600.
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